Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Council hearing, Mayor S. Davis Wilson asked Board Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of the Municipal Gas Corporation to support his campaign to reduce Philadelphia's gas rate from 90? to 50 per 1,000 cubic ft. Replied wealthy Octogenarian Vauclain. also board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works: "Fifty-cent gas is no more possible than my going to Heaven when...
...life insurance today is under heavier fire than at any time since the days of the Armstrong investigation in New York State 30 years ago. Some of this criticism has been caused by the terrific lapse and surrender rate that followed the 1929 Crash. High-pressure salesmanship had foisted more insurance on the U. S. public than the U. S. public could carry. In the past seven years some $120,000,000,000 worth of policies lapsed or were surrendered, involving the forfeit of nearly $750,000,000. In 1934 alone 10,000,000 industrial policies disappeared from the books...
...shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate on his own shipments but also a cash kickback from the freight paid by competitors. Thus if the rate was, say $2 per bbl. from Cleveland to New York, Standard Oil would not only get back 50? in rebate, it would also get 5? for each barrel shipped by competitors. All this was wrathfully exposed time & again but after each outburst of public indignation, Rockefeller quietly worked...
...order that the average Freshman may meet the higher standards of college courses, he must be stimulated by first rate teachers, and guided by able and interested advisors. Unfortunately the section-men in the Freshman courses are young graduate students, who have had little or no experience in the art of teaching. Striving for Ph. D. degrees, they have little time to devote to their sections, as their promotion depends almost entirely upon their capacity to do research work. The Freshman advisor, likewise, is burdened with his own scholastic endeavors, and has not the time to hold frequent meetings with...
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